Essays Tagged: "British Museum"

ute type instrument shown on a Terre-cotta plaque from Babylon dates to 1250 B.C. and is now in the BritishMuseum. The earliest occurrence of the guitar shape in a short-necked lute was in central As ...

teen barrows had been open. Some of the barrows were damaged from tanks during the war. In 1967 the BritishMuseum announced that excavations at Sutton Hoo would begin again. The plans when it opened ...

ied in the 5th century BC. The head and face (which once had a beard, fragments of which are in the BritishMuseum) are typical of Dynasty IV, with its headdress (heavily restored in the 1920s), uraeu ...

lness I expected from this encounter turned out not to be, as the Eternal Egypt collection from the BritishMuseum was in town, and the museum was crowded with people. After paying the required fees, ... ing unique and special.I reached the end of the collection, and there was nothing....nothing in the BritishMuseum collection that I thought was worth writing about. In utter abjection, I meandered on ...

. It was built by the Athenians in honor of their guardian goddess Athena. Two hundred years ago, a British aristocrat, visited this structure in hopes of catching a glimpse of its magnanimity but fou ... n an attempt to "rescue" (movie) these priceless works from the apparent neglect of the Greeks, the British lord bought some of the sculptures and transported them back to England with him. Since then ...

ndition of a mediocre Spanish immigrant to that of a bright student who has left his barrio for the BritishMuseum.Through reminiscing, Rodriguez depicts the story of his education as a gradual discon ...

body must be fairly old as it was buried under 2.5 m of peat, so the remains were taken to London's BritishMuseum for an autopsy.The autopsy revealed the body to be over 2000 years old, and great anx ...

ed about throughout the book. In chapter two, "Achievement for Desire", he explains that "...in the BritishMuseum for weeks I read, speed-read, books by modern educational theorists, only to find inf ...

ainted around 1400 BC during the New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt. Today you can view this piece in the BritishMuseum, in London. Around the same time we find Toreador Fresco, from the Minoan civilizatio ... ainted around 1400 BC during the New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt. Today you can view this piece in the BritishMuseum, in London. Around the same time we find Toreador Fresco, from the Minoan civilizatio ...

rpretation. Examples : 'He MAY HAVE ARRIVED at six' 'He CAN HAVE GONE by then' 'He'LL HAVE SEEN the BritishMuseum' 'He MUST HAVE LEFT the town' The subclassification of the modals could thus be prese ...

ex.html Parthenon MarblesRead a history of these three sets of marble sculptures, now housed at the BritishMuseum and consisting of metopes, frieze, and pediments.http://ares.math.utk.edu/marbles/ Gr ...

is so lavish.Other buildings built in this period did seem to tend to be neo classical such as the British museum. The front of the museum is almost identical to the temple of Concorde, Agrigento, Si ... arge private town houses followed this style of building. Sir Robert Smirk (1780-1867) designed the BritishMuseum south front, completed in 1847, which is clearly a fine example of neo-classical arch ...

that elite, they had the use of history's first digital computer, the abacus. A clay tablet in the BritishMuseum dated 2300-1600 B.C. and coming from Senkereh, in Babylonia, contains the squares of ... ing era of mathematics that lasted until around 1200 A.D. and led to major advancements in Algebra. British also computed with an exchequer table. name Exchequer comes from that board. The board was r ...

n ruins it stands as one of the biggest controversies in the art world. The conflict is between the BritishMuseum and the Greek government. The Greek government has been campaigning against the Briti ... y. Also, the Greek campaign is a step toward returning art to other countries and families that the BritishMuseum has illegally obtained. The British Government has become something of a playgr ...

, and the Indus Valley civilization. Mesopotamia stands for the "land between rivers" in Greek (The BritishMuseum). The Indus Valley Civilization also existed about the same time period and flourishe ... uco.edu:2050/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=18631147&site=ehost-live."Geography". The BritishMuseum. 31 December 2008 .KRISHNAN, K., I.C. FREESTONE, and A. P. MIDDLETON. "THE TECHNOLOGY ...

ires they build, however mighty in their own time.The 'Younger Memnon' statue of Ramesses II in the BritishMuseum thought to have inspired the poemOzymandias was another name for Ramesses the Great, ... o have been inspired by the arrival in London of a colossal statue of Ramesses II, acquired for the BritishMuseum by the Italian adventurer Giovanni Belzoni in 1816.[6] Rodenbeck and Chaney, however, ...

ding the Elgin Marbles ever since they were taken from the Acropolis in 1801. They were kept in the BritishMuseum and the Greeks were demanding them to be returned to Athens, their country of origin. ... ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_ethicshttp://www.guardians.net/hawass/sphinx2.htmhttp://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/w/what_are_the_elgin_marbles.aspximrd.org/creasma ...

f London, especially the most bustling part of the highly multicultural city, apart from the native British citizens, perhaps the most race you would see is the Chinese. The UK, indeed, sometimes joki ... ly, which is largely represented in terms of their jobs.The first Chinese that ever recorded in the British history is Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, a Catholic, who had stayed in England from 1685 to 1688 an ...

ootwear and clothing by Adidas has been seen on athletes at every Olympic Games since. In fact, all British medal-winning athletes at the last 8 Olympic Games wore Adidas products.There are countless ... s. Market research undertaken by Adidas showed the youth audience wanted something 'untraditionally British'. Designer Stella McCartney fulfilled this brief with her deconstructed union flag design.Pr ...